The European Studies Council and the Baltic Studies Program at Yale present Ksenija Iljina on “Soviet Mythologies in Commemorative and Ritual Practices in Modern Latvia.”
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Ms. Iljina is a MPhil candidate at University College London and is participating in the Yale University-University College London Exchange Program. At Yale she is continuing work on her doctoral thesis, which examines the uses of Soviet mythologies and ritual practices, especially in contemporary Latvia. She considers how Russia as a post-imperial state exerts its soft-power influence in post-Soviet states through nostalgia for the Soviet past and how these states are responding. Her research centers on heritage, memory, and identity construction in the Baltic region. In 2017 Ms. Iljina received an M.A. in Arts and Cultural Management from King’s College London (Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries). Before this she completed a B.A. degree in Russian Philology at the University of Latvia. Her broader research interests include Russian and Slavonic Studies, Baltic Studies, and Cultural Memory and Social Anthropology.